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Latest Episodes:

Replay – ‘A Growth Mindset’, with Ellen Bensky Jan 31, 2023

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In this special replay episode, Ellen Bensky of Turner Fleischer Architects joins the podcast to talk about how she and her team built a teaching organization and a learning culture, their experience in how that effectively works within the construct of a firm, the benefits that result when a firm doesn't require its staff to have utilization targets, the difference between knowledge and data, who should teach in an organization, the importance of feedback loops, and more.

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Ellen Bensky on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer Architects website
Turner Fleischer on LinkedIn
Turner Fleischer on Twitter
Ellen's KA Connect 2018 Presentation: The Hidden Benefits of Developing a Teaching Organization
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My YouTube channel

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Replay – ‘Outcomes and Outputs’, with John Turner Jan 24, 2023

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In this special replay episode, John Turner of Gafcon Digital joins the podcast to talk about digital twins and their value proposition in the total building lifecycle, who is—and who isn't—involved (that probably should be) in digital twins, risk aversion & business models, the internet of things & the internet of actions, the 'digital thread', and more.

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Digital Twin Consortium
Gafcon's Digital Twin/Cyberbuild Approach
Lean manufacturing (Wikipedia)
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Replay – ‘What Other Dials Do You Have to Turn’, with Phil Bernstein Jan 17, 2023

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In this special replay episode, Phil Bernstein of the Yale School of Architecture joins the podcast to talk about teaching his pro practice course that encourages architecture students to push beyond the traditional business model, value propositions of architecture, encouraging collaboration when working in isolation, and much more.

Links

Phil Bernstein on Twitter
Phil’s ARCH 2230b course at Yale School of Architecture entitled Technology and Practice – Exploring New Value in Design Practice
Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
Evan’s YouTube videos mentioning Phil’s inspiration
Paper Drawings Need to Die! (Digital Built Week Seattle 2019)
Architectural tech, practice, and education in Charleston!
Phil’s articles that elaborate more on the topics in this episode:
Phil Bernstein Shares Ten Thoughts on the Future of Practice
Why the Field of Architecture Needs a New Business Model
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Replay – ‘Punctuated Equilibrium’, with Anthony Hauck Jan 10, 2023

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In this special replay episode, Anthony Hauck of HYPAR joins the podcast to talk about making the mark you want to make, pursuing something that feels more valuable, shared goals and value propositions in AEC, and more.

Links

Calamityware Mugs
DBEI (BiLT Conference)
Disruptive Technologies in Architecture – AIA Palm Beach Presentation – Nov 2020 (YouTube)
Architecture - Design - Data: Practice Competency in the Era of Computation by Phillip Bernstein
TRXL episode 003 with Ian Keough, CEO of Hypar
TRXL episode 028 with Brian Ringley, Construction Technology Manager at Boston Dynamics
Spacemaker
Book recommendations:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
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Replay – ‘A Healthy Dose of Skepticism’, with Nathan Miller Jan 03, 2023

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In this special replay episode, Nathan Miller of Proving Ground joins the podcast to talk about hobbies during the pandemic, the digital transformation of AEC, some drawbacks of generative design, privacy concerns with IoT devices and connected buildings, and so much more!

Links

Proving Ground web site
Computers are Hard blog post
Nathan Miller on Twitter
Nathan Miller on LinkedIn
Leading architecture firms pen open letter to Autodesk over rising costs, sluggish development (Archpaper)
Ender 3d Printer (Amazon)
Book recommendations:
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly (Bookshop)
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind (Bookshop)
YouTube links and channel recommendations:
Nate's NXT BUILD 2020 presentation (YouTube)
Proving Ground's YouTube channel
Colin Furze
Adam Savage's Tested
The Hacksmith
Alien Exoskeleton
Lightsaber episode
TRXL episode 018: ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes
Project Anklebiter forum thread on 914 World
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Replay – ‘That Perfect Kind of Venn Diagram’, with Dane Stokes Dec 27, 2022

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In this special replay episode, Dane Stokes of ZGF Architects joins the podcast to talk about his journey into architecture, being a 'computer person', design computation and automation, the importance of making things and working with your hands, custom fabrication, one-button buildings, having kids and failure, and much more.

Links

YourDesk University with Dane Stokes
Rhino.Inside by McNeel
AIA Technology and Practice community (TAP)
Colin Furze (YouTube)
Dane's website
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My YouTube channel

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Replay – ‘Creating Opportunities for Collisions’, with Eric Reinholdt Dec 20, 2022

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In this special replay episode, Eric Reinholdt of 30X40 Design Workshop joins the podcast to talk about why he started his YouTube channel, the keys to being productive, why getting away from architecture helps his process, the importance of making things, turning sources into resources, and much more.

Links

30x40 Design Workshop - Eric's web site
Eric's YouTube channel
A Choice to Make
Evan's YouTube channel
Archispeak at CONSTRUCT - YouTube as a productivity tool
Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena"
Eric's books
Ira Glass on one's taste exceeding one's ability
Steve Jobs on connecting the dots
Dieter Rams
Werner Herzog and his Masterclass on Filmmaking
Peter Zumthor
Making versus managing
Five Finger Death Punch
In Flames (Swedish melodic death metal)
Nils Frahm
Coheed and Cambria
Derek Sivers podcast
Tom Hegen - photographer of impossible landscapes
FIRE movement - Financial Independence, Retire Early
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
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108: ‘Systematization Before Automation’, with Oliver David (OD) Krieg Dec 13, 2022

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Oliver David (OD) Krieg of Intelligent City joins the podcast to talk about topics at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and turn-key urban housing as a product. We begin with OD’s journey from school at ICD in Germany to where he is currently at Intelligent City, the value and benefits of bottom-up as opposed to top-down initiatives, moving away from project thinking to a product company, navigating risk versus reward in manufacturing, design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) and industrialized construction, prefab in relation to mass timber highrise, density, housing, sustainability, and carbon neutrality, where parametric design fits into the process, the definition of parametric manufacturing and mass customization, what it’s like building an industry from scratch, building architecture on top of tech in relation to a tech-first company (versus a project-first or architecture-first company), and why systematization must occur before automation.

Links

OD on LinkedIn
OD on Twitter
OD on Instagram
OD’s website (highly recommended!)
Finger-jointed plate panel pavilion
Intelligent City website
Intelligent City on LinkedIn
Intelligent City on Twitter
Intelligent City on Instagram
CAD’s Boring Future and Why it’s Exciting by Daniel Davis (re: the fat middle)
Additional TRXL episodes referenced in the conversation:
TRXL 063 - ‘The Thicc Middle’, with Daniel Davis
TRXL 100 - ‘Negative Compound Interest’, with Paul Wintour
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107: ‘Quasi-Irreversible Investment’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo Dec 06, 2022

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Anthony Frausto-Robledo of Architosh joins the podcast to talk about two of his recent articles highlighting Autodesk. The first article is an interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and the topic is their Autodesk University announcement of the next generation industry cloud platform for AEC called Forma. The second article is about the recent Nordic Open Letter penned by several significant architectural associations that was recently delivered to Autodesk’s CEO regarding Revit development and value as subscription costs have continued to rise. We also discuss a bit of Disruption Theory, network effects and positive externalities, switching costs and the sunk cost fallacy, how academia fits into the puzzle of technology training and the profession’s expectations, how technology developers fit into the puzzle of professional practice operations in regards to dependency on the tech to fulfill business deliverables, dominance and power, Superman syndrome, and a short lesson in railroad track gauges.

Links

Anthony on LinkedIn
Anthony on Twitter
Architosh website
Anthony's free Xpresso email newsletter
Architosh on LinkedIn
Architosh on Instagram
Autodesk Begins New Era for Future of Architecture (Architosh)
The Revit Open Letter Through the Lens of QWERTY-Nomics (Architosh)
Nordic Open Letter (AEC Mag)
European Open Letter (AEC Mag)
Clayton Christensen's theory on innovative disruption (Wikipedia)
Sunk cost fallacy explained
Economist Paul A. David's landmark Clio and the Economics of QWERTY
European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) position paper on lack of competition in the AEC software industry
How to lose a monopoly (Benedict Evans)
Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM (Forbes)
A History of Track Gauge
Why BART system uses wider gauge
Previous TRXL episodes featuring Anthony:
TRXL 012 – ‘Force Multipliers’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
TRXL 022 – ‘Turbo Boost Mood’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
TRXL 023 – ‘One More Thing’, with Anthony Frausto-Robledo
Check out my other podcasts too: Archispeak and Peopleverse
My YouTube channel

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Content is more than Revit families. If it’s digital, AVAIL can handle it. Learn more today at https://getavail.com and future-proof your firm’s technology investment.

106: ‘Aligning Ambitious Ideas’, with Gabe Paez Nov 29, 2022

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Gabe Paez of Autodesk joins the podcast to talk about the intersection of humans and immersive technologies, the magic of experiencing ideas together, shared reality, the difficulty of change in relation to new tools and workflows, the value of working in different ways, the (controversial) notion of having fun at work, Extended Reality (XR) as it relates to remote work, shortening the distance between an idea and an experience, experiential tools, the value of collaboration, synchronous and asynchronous work on projects, interactive and manipulatable environments, persistence of virtual environments, and more.

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